1/ Set Main Bright Box wireless channel to 11
2/ Set Slave Bright Box wireless channel to 9
3/ Ensure SSIDs and wireless security (passwords) are identical for both
4/ Give the SLAVE (repeater) Bright Box a STATIC IP in the same sub-net as the master (for example, 192.168.1.10) and then turn OFF DHCP on the SLAVE.
5/ Link them with an ethernet cable, and reboot.

1/ Set Main Bright Box wireless channel to 11
2/ Set Slave Bright Box wireless channel to 9
3/ Ensure SSIDs and wireless security (passwords) are identical for both
4/ Give the SLAVE (repeater) Bright Box a STATIC IP in the same sub-net as the master (for example, 192.168.1.10) and then turn OFF DHCP on the SLAVE.
5/ Link them with an ethernet cable, and reboot.

Here is a picture of the DHCP config page:

I hope this works for you; this picture is of the SLAVE config:

Originally Posted by unlokia

Thank you for the quick reply.

3/ Ensure SSIDs and wireless security (passwords) are identical for both

Same SSID and Password for both routers or different for Master and Slave ie Master = Orange-Up, Slave = Orange-Down?

I haven't changed anything on my side..I have rang Orange around 20 times complaining but they always say it's my fault.

Originally Posted by tempzz

I'm no ADSL expert, but that's a slow ping; I'd call Orange back and ask them to do a DSLAM BRAS profile reset and/or "whoosh" test. If I am giving incorrect advice, maybe someone else will correct me and give you the right advice.

I rang them and said to the service technician and she didn't have a clue. I was getting kind of angry at her, she kept going on about "We only get direct information from the exchange, we do not look or deal with Members forums".

I then explained to her last time I spoke to a team "mate" about high ping and he said if you're still facing high ping call us back and we'll reset your line..

She then told me "To let her speak and state the issue in simpler terms, which I thought was very rude".

She said "I'll put in a request for a line reset, but i'm not sure they'll do one, but i'll ask for one" - Just ****ing really?

By then I was ****ing ****ed off, so I said to her well this phone call was usless and hung up.

Rude bitch

Last edited by bouncingjohn; 05-September-2012 at 10:55.
Reason: Please don't try to circumvent the swear filter

I rang them and said to the service technician and she didn't have a clue. I was getting kind of angry at her, she kept going on about "We only get direct information from the exchange, we do not look or deal with Members forums".

I then explained to her last time I spoke to a team "mate" about high ping and he said if you're still facing high ping call us back and we'll reset your line..

She then told me "To let her speak and state the issue in simpler terms, which I thought was very rude".

She said "I'll put in a request for a line reset, but i'm not sure they'll do one, but i'll ask for one" - Just ****ing really?

By then I was ****ing ****ed off, so I said to her well this phone call was usless and hung up.

Rude bitch

Originally Posted by tempzz

Your attitude sounds pretty bad to me, with all respect. No wonder you got nowhere.

From what you have stated, she is entirely correct, and yes - why would she be taking into account some information from some (to her) unknown website, in order to solve your problems? BRAS profiles are stored at the BT exchange, she is resetting the BRAS profile, and that will hopefully sort you out.

You get further in life being patient and gracious than being bad tempered and hotheaded.

Take care

Last edited by bouncingjohn; 05-September-2012 at 11:09.
Reason: Removed bad language from quote

tempzz: I've edited your posted to remove your circumvention of the swear filter. While I have no problem with "bad" language myself many people do. Bottom line: it's there for a reason, try to do it again and you will be banned.

Apparently the newer versions of the Bright Box allow ANY MTU value to be preset, and not just 1492. I have four Bright Boxes, one a few months old, and the other three that came within the last week, and the old(er) one has this at the bottom of the label:

"146000107400J R01 ELN"

whereas ALL of the other three, newer ones have:

"146000107400J R01 WQJ"

It seems that the last three chars of that string indicate a newer version...

Hi Unlockia,
Fantastic work very impressed, so impressed I went and got myself one of those USB serial connectors.
I obtained my bright box from my friend when she switched from orange. she saw it as useless, and I saw it had potential. I've followed up some of your tutorials which are very useful. I want to try build a firmware and try and change a few restrictive things. Personally my modem is cable so I have no reason to use this to access the internet.
Who knows if I successfully 'unlock' It I could always sell it again so it could be used via any ISP.
If you have any other discoveries please let me know.

Hi Unlockia,
Fantastic work very impressed, so impressed I went and got myself one of those USB serial connectors.
I obtained my bright box from my friend when she switched from orange. she saw it as useless, and I saw it had potential. I've followed up some of your tutorials which are very useful. I want to try build a firmware and try and change a few restrictive things. Personally my modem is cable so I have no reason to use this to access the internet.
Who knows if I successfully 'unlock' It I could always sell it again so it could be used via any ISP.
If you have any other discoveries please let me know.

Hi Unlockia. Google believes you're the only person on the planet with this level of knowledge on the Bright Box :-)
I'm wondering if you've encountered the odd behaviour I see, where the BB fails to bridge wifi to wires network requests - Specifically ICMP ping (annoying) and seemingly CUPS printing (really annoying). I had hoped to find a setting somewhere in the UI but despite disabling the 'block ICMP from the outside' "feature" it still seems to be actively policing traffic bridging my local LAN/Wifi worlds.

Hi all,
I stumbled across this thread whilst trying to work out how to get my home to office VPN working.

Anyone had any experience / luck with getting on a VPN over their brightbox?

All Orange would say is that they don't support VPN. - But I don't believe they filter out IP-sec traffic. So I think the problem would be somewhere in the router itself.

From googling, various posters complain that going from their old livebox to the new brightbox caused their existing VPN connections to stop working. But their posts don't seem to resolve in any answers.

My particular problem is that I can connect fine, but I can never reach any of the hosts in the office. I can take the laptop to an internet cafe and bingo, I'm on ok. So I know it's not a problem with my laptop.

Hi all,
I stumbled across this thread whilst trying to work out how to get my home to office VPN working.

Anyone had any experience / luck with getting on a VPN over their brightbox?

All Orange would say is that they don't support VPN. - But I don't believe they filter out IP-sec traffic. So I think the problem would be somewhere in the router itself.

From googling, various posters complain that going from their old livebox to the new brightbox caused their existing VPN connections to stop working. But their posts don't seem to resolve in any answers.

My particular problem is that I can connect fine, but I can never reach any of the hosts in the office. I can take the laptop to an internet cafe and bingo, I'm on ok. So I know it's not a problem with my laptop.

Anyway - thanks for reading.

Cheers

Originally Posted by dcorbish

The network you are connecting from cannot be on the same subnet as the network you are trying to connect to over VPN, you will not be able to reach any of the clients on that network.

Is there any chance you can re-link to the firmware files like you did in the first few posts?

I have been given a BrightBox router and would like to use it as a repeater in my house, but when I connect to 192.168.1.1 via ethernet, I am taken to a page that is requesting the system and bootloader files.

Many thanks in advance. It is the ingenious people like you in this world that allow many people to succeed with these things. You have my total respect and admiration.

I think I've found something for remote managing this router. I used to use dynamic dns on previous router. But disappointed this didn't have remote management to use the dynamic dns usefully. Someone mentioned that there is a port open 8085. Well I have dynamic dns enabled and filled in with my account details. When I go to my Dynamicdns address and add ":8085" it goes to a Login_guest.htm page. I'm doing this on my iPad which ends up with an error of "too many redirects" hopefully this will work on my laptop will update if it does.

Just to follow on from my previous post, I made a cable and linked it to a physical serial port on an old dell laptop. Unfortunately, upon power up, the data that was sent was unreadable. I tried various combinations of baud, length and stop bits without joy. Can anyone offer any advice? It was given to me due to a problem while orange were sending the new EE branding. I have one myself but after looking last night, there are no pins where the header should be and so I was unable to narrow the problem.

I'm here to find out if I can override the username that orange have forced to end in "@fs" myself. I've google and googled but to no avail. Other people have asked the question but it does not seem to be answered except maybe for this thread:

where someone has recommended their own site where you pay to use a tool that allows you to change the username 10 times but you cannot edit the router settings without changing the username back to include the "@fs". No-one else seems to have used the site...

Just to follow on from my previous post, I made a cable and linked it to a physical serial port on an old dell laptop. Unfortunately, upon power up, the data that was sent was unreadable. I tried various combinations of baud, length and stop bits without joy. Can anyone offer any advice? It was given to me due to a problem while orange were sending the new EE branding. I have one myself but after looking last night, there are no pins where the header should be and so I was unable to narrow the problem.

Hi I have one of these routers was sent it by mistake. I would love to use it as my primary router but I'm currently on plus net fibre but the router is no good for me as I can't forward ports. There must be s solution to it being able to accept @fs username as it can be done remotely (for a charge). If indeed it is genuine. I unfortunately have no idea as to how.
I'm willing to donate my router if effort was to be put in to this area but would request upon success it to be returned to me I would also be willing to donate if this became possible.